I Wouldn't Let It Go

I was just a boy

A rough and restless child

All skin and bones and thistles

A tough weed growing wild

Someday I'd be an astronaut

And make my way up to Mars

But I was like a monkey

With my hand stuck in a jarI was holding on to something

That I couldn't make my own

At times it seemed so hopeless

But I wouldn't let it go

No I wouldn't let it go

No I would not let it goOnce I took a penny

Placed it on the track

When the freight train flattened it

I couldn't change it back

I was never lost

In my little town

But I remember hoping

That someday I'd be found(chorus)

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